SEEP Scribes:

Presentation materials from the 2009 SEEP Annual Conference

For the second year in a row, The SEEP Network has assembled a team of microfinance and microenterprise practitioners to document the plenaries and workshops of the 2009 SEEP Annual Conference. They have captured key statements from each session to be presented in concise and clear notes the lessons learned and challenges facing practitioners. For further details, you can download the PDF notes and the presenters’ PowerPoint presentations. 

SEEP would like to thank the Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC) for editing the 22 sets of notes produced from the plenaries and workshops.  Read short bios for the SEEP Scribes and FDC's editors.

Read the Notes 

Plenary Sessions
Wed, 9-10:30am	Keynote Address presented by Anne-Marie Slaughter, Director of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State	[html]	[pdf]	no ppt
Thurs, 9-10:30am	Poverty Outreach Models at Work - Data and Experience from Promising Practice	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Conflict Track
Wed, 11-12:30pm	Sustainable Development, Sustainable Peace:  Assessing the Impact of Economic Development Interventions on Conflict	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Wed, 1:30-3pm	Introduction to the Emergency Market Mapping and Assessment Toolkit (EMMA)	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Microfinance Track
Wed, 11-12:30pm	Microfinance Meltdown in Bosnia: Could We Have Averted the Crisis?	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Wed, 1:30-3pm	Does your MFI have fraud? Would you know if it did? Why Board internal audit committees should not be forgotten	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Thurs, 11-12:30pm	Lessons Learned from Transformation: NRSP Case Study	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Thurs, 1:30-3pm	Making Institutional Transition Work: The Alignment of Management Interests	[html]	[pdf]	no ppt
Poverty Outreach Track
Wed, 11-12:30pm	Low-Cost Rural Expansion of Savings Groups through Local Agents	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Wed, 1:30-3pm	Linking Savings Groups to External Capital: Innovation, Challenges and Lessons	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Thurs, 11-12:30pm	Adding Health to Microfinance: Breaking News from Around the Globe	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Thurs, 1:30-3pm	Poverty Outreach in Enterprise Development: Challenges and Innovative Solutions	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Social Performance Track
Thurs, 11-12:30pm	How Does Social Performance Management Translate into Social Returns?	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Thurs, 1:30-3pm	Every Client, Every Chance, Every Day:  Managing Toward Mission Achievement	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Technology Track
Wed, 11-12:30pm	Helping Clients Overcome Barriers and Benefit from Technology	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Wed, 1:30-3pm	Mobile Devices Enabling Mobile Data: Gathering Client-Level Data with Portable Electronic Devices for Research, Monitoring, and Decision-Making	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Value Chain Development Track
Wed, 11-12:30pm	Advancing Competitiveness, Reducing Poverty, Empowering Women:  Applying a Gender Equity Lens to Enhance Value Chain Development	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Wed, 1:30-3pm	Organizational Capacity:  Scaling Implementation of the Value Chain Approach	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Thurs, 11-12:30pm	Urban Value Chain Development: Importance, Innovative Approaches and Learning Opportunities	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Thurs, 1:30-3pm	Enterprise Development IGP New Lessons for Value Chain Development	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Youth Track
Thurs, 11-12:30pm	Diverse Approaches to Workforce Development: Lessons and Experiences	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]
Thurs, 1:30-3pm	Youth Need Financial Services Too! Examining Current Products and Identifying Gaps	[html]	[pdf]	[ppt]

Download the Annual Conference Program-at-a-Glance

Meet the Scribes and FDC editors

Click here to read their bios.

•      Microfinance Track: Aurica Balmus (ShoreBank International), Sonya Bearden (ShoreBank International), Stephanie Dolan (Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International), and Ralitsa Sapundzhieva (Microfinance Information Exchange)

•      Poverty Outreach Track: Eloisa Devietti (Oxfam America), Jessica Elisberg (Microfinance Information Exchange), Terry Isert (consultant), and Andrea Teebagy (Oxfam America)

•      Social Performance Track: Lisa Kuhn Fraioli (Freedom from Hunger) and Sandra Winters (Unitus)

•      Technology Track: Lucy Gillers (IRIS Center) and Alexi Taylor-Grosman (FINCA)

•      Value Chain Development Track: Katie Turner (MEDA), Kara Barrett (dTS), Terry Isert (consultant), and Samantha DiFilippo (The SEEP Network)

•      Youth Track: Asma Choudhary (Opportunity International) and Rathi Mani (Making Cents International)

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